A couple of years ago such a machine was transported between two hospitals in Trondheim and Bodø (450km), using a F-16 fighter jet. It all started with a phone

A couple of years ago such a machine was transported between two hospitals in Trondheim and Bodø (450km), using a F-16 fighter jet. It all started with a phone call from a doctor at St. Olavs Hospital with what he described as an unusual request for assistance. A fighter squadron was just about to take off from Ørland going to Rygge for training, and by chance one of the fighter jets was fitted with a cargo bay. They held that fighter jet back and re-routed it to Bodø, where machine was needed. A medical helicopter transported the machine from Trondheim to Ørland. From the helicopter landed at Ørland to the fighter jet delivered the machine at Bodø it took 40 minutes, a trip that usually takes 35 minutes alone. The machine arrived just before the trauma team. The patient survived.